Smart Cities May Stall, But Smarter Communities Are Surging

September 10, 2018

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Tom Sawyer - Engineering News-Record

A vision of the future with smart, efficient, utopian, technology-empowered “smart cities” has gleamed on the horizon for years. The concept offers vague promises that all of a city’s infrastructure and operations will be connecting, communicating and automatically adjusting facilities and services to deliver ever higher levels of satisfaction and efficiency.